Quotes about Emotion

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun/ And she forgot the blue above the trees,/ And she forgot the dells where waters run,/ And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze;/ She had no knowledge when the day was done,/ And the new morn she saw not: but in peace/ Hung over her sweet basil evermore,/ And moisten'd it with tears unto the core.

I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—'t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

Everything that reminds me of her goes through me like a spear.

I would have borne it as I would bear death if fate was in that humour: but I should as soon think of choosing to die as to part from you.

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There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, And a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, And a blush for just begun it.

We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.

I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

From his lips/not words alone pleased her.